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The Frigid Golden Age : Climate Change, the Little Ice Age, and the Dutch Republic, 1560-1720.

By: Series: Studies in environment and historyPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018Description: xxii, 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108419314
  • 1108419313
  • 9781108410410
  • 1108410413
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 304.2/5094920903 23
LOC classification:
  • QC903.2.N4 D44 2018
Contents:
Introduction : crisis and opportunity in a changing climate -- The Little Ice Age -- Reaching Asia in a stormy, chilly climate -- Sailing, floating, riding, and skating through a cooler Europe -- Cooling, warming, and the wars of independence, 1564-1648 -- Gales, winds, and Anglo-Dutch antagonism, 1652-1688 -- Tracing and painting the Little Ice Age -- Texts, technologies, and climate change -- Conclusion : lessons from ice and gold.
Awards:
  • ASLI Choice Award
Summary: Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.
List(s) this item appears in: 2020 - 2021 New Titles
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Mesa Lab QC903.2 .N4 .D44 2018 1 Available 50583020008383
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-354) and index.

Introduction : crisis and opportunity in a changing climate -- The Little Ice Age -- Reaching Asia in a stormy, chilly climate -- Sailing, floating, riding, and skating through a cooler Europe -- Cooling, warming, and the wars of independence, 1564-1648 -- Gales, winds, and Anglo-Dutch antagonism, 1652-1688 -- Tracing and painting the Little Ice Age -- Texts, technologies, and climate change -- Conclusion : lessons from ice and gold.

Explores the resilience of the Dutch Republic in the face of preindustrial climate change during the Little Ice Age.

ASLI Choice Award

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